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A famille verte ‘West Lake landscape’ bowl A famille verte teapot and cover
Jiaqing six-character sealmark, 20th century Kangxi
Enamelled to the exterior with a continuous scene of scholars The octagonal section teapot enamelled to each face with Precious
and figures in dwellings in a craggy snowy landscape, a city-gate objects, raised on four bracket feet, with a straight spout, with a
visible in the distance, inscribed Gengling Jixue 庚嶺積雪 [the snow upright loop handle imitating bamboo, the cover similarly with lozenges
accumulated on Mount Geng], the interior enamelled in iron red with a and brocade balls.
central medallion of pine, prunus and finger citron, and a reserved ruyi- 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high (2).
head border below the rim.
15cm (5 7/8in) diam. £1,500 - 1,800
CNY14,000 - 17,000
£2,000 - 3,000 HK$18,000 - 21,000
CNY19,000 - 28,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000 43
An unusual famille verte wine ewer
In his book Mingqing Ciqi Jianding (Ming and Qing Porcelains on 19th century
inspection), (Zhonghua Shuju, 1989) Geng Baochang states that the Formed as a bamboo root with a gnarled naturalistic loop handle and
bowls decorated with landscape scenes of the West Lake were made bamboo shoot spout, with two openings at the top, the body with
to court order during the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor. reticulated wan roundels and foliate meanders.
17cm (6 5/8in) high

£1,500 - 2,000 HK$18,000 - 24,000
CNY14,000 - 19,000

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